Vocab
The ablity of a person to recieve proper healthcare when needed.
What is access?
The United States
What developed country spends the most on health care services?
Obamacare
What is another name for the Affordable Care Act (ACA)?
Air pollution, food/water contaiminents, radiation, and toxic chemicals.
What are physical environmental factors?
Views healthcare as a social resource.
Emphasizes the well-being of the community over that of the indivdual.
What is social justice?
To cover major expenses for unlike or unexpected events.
A federal insurance program covering the elderly, and certain disabled people
What is Medicare?
Heredity.
What is a key determinant of health?
Society has an obligation to the collective good.
What is a principle of social justice?
Prescribing additional diagonic tests, scheduling checkups, and keeping abdudant medical records for legal protection.
A joint federal/state program providing insurance to the poor.
What is Medicaid
Diet, exercise, stress, risky/unhealthy behaviors (ex. smoking)
What are some behavioral factors?
Market forces can best achieve a fair distribution of health care services in a free economy.
What are the principles of market justice?
The provision of medical care or illness care
What is a healthcare delivery system?
The use of newer more advanced technology.
What contributes the most to high healthcare costs?
An insurance program in which beneficiaries can recieve care from both private and military medical care facilities.
What is TriCare?
Environment, behavior and lifestyle, heredity, and medical care access
What are the four major determinants of health?
Social Justice and Market Justice
What theories address the concern of equitable access to healthcare services?
A vulnerable population with health needs but inadequate resources to address them.
The inadequacy and disparity in access to primary care services.
What are the main reasons the U.S lags behind other developed countries in healthcare?
Entities whose mission is to educate the general publice about early disease detection and prevention.
What are Patient advocacy organizations (PAOs)?
Factors that contribute to the general wellbeing of individuals and populations.
What are health determinants?
People purchase a share of available goods and services using their own financial resources.
How are goods and services distributed in a free market?